WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:21.000 The makers of Camel Cigarettes present Dick Powell as Richard Diamond, private detective. 00:21.000 --> 00:42.000 What is the 30-day camel mildness test? 00:42.000 --> 00:47.000 It's a sensible test of cigarette mildness based on steady smoking. 00:47.000 --> 00:51.000 And here's all you do, smoke only camels for 30 days. 00:51.000 --> 00:58.000 Smoke them as your steady smoke and see how rich, how flavorful camels are pack after pack. 00:58.000 --> 01:02.000 Yes, smoke camels as your steady smoke for 30 days. 01:02.000 --> 01:07.000 And discover how well camels agree with your throat week after week. 01:07.000 --> 01:11.000 Tonight, start your own 30-day camel mildness test. 01:11.000 --> 01:24.000 Make the camel 30-day test and you'll see, smoke camels and see. 01:24.000 --> 01:40.000 Now we bring you another transcribed adventure with Richard Diamond, private detective starring Dick Powell. 01:40.000 --> 01:44.000 Diamond Detective Agency, a pleasant smile, a cheerful rhyme. 01:44.000 --> 01:46.000 We'll keep you from doing time. 01:46.000 --> 01:47.000 Oh. 01:47.000 --> 01:48.000 Hi, Helen. 01:48.000 --> 01:52.000 Hi. Rick, where do you get that cheerful rhyme bit? 01:52.000 --> 01:53.000 You didn't think so? 01:53.000 --> 01:54.000 I didn't think so. 01:54.000 --> 01:55.000 Killjoy. 01:55.000 --> 01:57.000 Why can't you answer the phone like other people do? Just say hello. 01:57.000 --> 01:59.000 You know, I never thought of that. 01:59.000 --> 02:00.000 You should try it sometimes. 02:00.000 --> 02:04.000 Your prospective clients might think they were dealing with a sane, normal person. 02:04.000 --> 02:06.000 You think it's fair to mislead them? 02:06.000 --> 02:08.000 Oh, Rick. Are you busy? 02:08.000 --> 02:09.000 Silly girl. 02:09.000 --> 02:14.000 Busy detectives make money. I just sit at my desk and make conversation with a beautiful redhead. 02:14.000 --> 02:18.000 Why don't you leave your desk and come make conversation with said redhead in person? 02:18.000 --> 02:19.000 That's not a bad idea. 02:19.000 --> 02:20.000 I'm all alone. 02:20.000 --> 02:21.000 The idea is getting better. 02:21.000 --> 02:24.000 It's not even noon yet. We can go for a long walk. 02:24.000 --> 02:25.000 Oh. 02:25.000 --> 02:28.000 You don't sound very enthusiastic. What's wrong with taking a walk? 02:28.000 --> 02:32.000 Honey, in my business, I do more leg work than a pair of nylons. 02:32.000 --> 02:35.000 Walking just isn't my idea of a ripping good time. 02:35.000 --> 02:36.000 Have you a better suggestion? 02:36.000 --> 02:39.000 You can know me for five years and ask questions like that. 02:39.000 --> 02:41.000 Oh, now, dear, let's just... 02:41.000 --> 02:44.000 Uh-uh. Skip it. I am not alone. 02:44.000 --> 02:45.000 Client? 02:45.000 --> 02:47.000 Uh-uh. Shrimp Martin. 02:47.000 --> 02:48.000 Oh, I don't think I know him. 02:48.000 --> 02:50.000 Well, that's something to be proud of. 02:50.000 --> 02:52.000 Calculate it here. Bye. 02:52.000 --> 02:53.000 Bye. 02:53.000 --> 02:54.000 Hello, Diamond. 02:54.000 --> 02:57.000 Never mind shaking hands, Shrimp. I want to keep my cuff links. 02:57.000 --> 02:59.000 Ah, you know me, Rick. 02:59.000 --> 03:02.000 Too well. What brings you here, small man? 03:02.000 --> 03:03.000 Strictly business. 03:03.000 --> 03:07.000 Oh, come off it, Shrimp. You don't have enough to hire a bathtub, let alone a detective. 03:07.000 --> 03:10.000 On the level, Rick. I'm here to make you some dough. 03:10.000 --> 03:12.000 Just a big-hearted guy, huh? 03:12.000 --> 03:13.000 Okay, spell it. 03:13.000 --> 03:15.000 You heard of Hank Burton. 03:15.000 --> 03:16.000 I read the papers. 03:16.000 --> 03:20.000 Then you read how Hank lifted 50 Gs worth of rocks a few months back. 03:20.000 --> 03:21.000 So? 03:21.000 --> 03:25.000 So they're offering an even grand reward for whoever brings Hank in. 03:25.000 --> 03:27.000 What are you getting at? 03:27.000 --> 03:31.000 Just that that even thousand is your fee if you'll do the little job. 03:31.000 --> 03:32.000 What? 03:32.000 --> 03:34.000 Hank Burton, he's the one who sent me. 03:34.000 --> 03:37.000 He says he'll let you turn him in and collect the grand. 03:37.000 --> 03:39.000 Well, well, well, another big-hearted guy. 03:39.000 --> 03:41.000 Make yourself clear, Shrimp, and fast. 03:41.000 --> 03:44.000 Burton wants to see you. He wants you to do a legit job for him. 03:44.000 --> 03:46.000 He'll pay you for it by letting you turn him in. 03:46.000 --> 03:47.000 Doesn't make sense. 03:47.000 --> 03:50.000 Sure does. Hank's a sick boy, bad heart condition. 03:50.000 --> 03:53.000 If he don't get some hospital care, soon he's a goner. 03:53.000 --> 03:57.000 Only as soon as he shows up at the hospital, the cops will nab him. 03:57.000 --> 03:59.000 So he might as well give himself up. 03:59.000 --> 04:02.000 And he'll let me be the one to collect the reward for it, huh? 04:02.000 --> 04:03.000 You got it right. 04:03.000 --> 04:06.000 That's his way of paying you for the job he wants done. 04:06.000 --> 04:07.000 Just what's the job? 04:07.000 --> 04:12.000 Sorry, I said as much as I know, except the job is strictly on the up and up. 04:12.000 --> 04:14.000 The rest you can hear from Hank himself. 04:14.000 --> 04:15.000 Where do I find it? 04:15.000 --> 04:18.000 I take you to him if you're interested in taking the job. 04:18.000 --> 04:23.000 Shrimp, I'm interested in almost anything that involves a thousand bucks. 04:23.000 --> 04:27.000 Only if this deal isn't on the level, I'll ram those buck teeth of yours down your throat. 04:27.000 --> 04:29.000 I tell the truth, I swear it. 04:29.000 --> 04:31.000 Don't bother to cross your heart. 04:31.000 --> 04:33.000 I doubt you'd be able to find it. 04:33.000 --> 04:35.000 Let's go see Burton. 04:39.000 --> 04:42.000 I didn't have any faith in Shrimp Martin, 04:42.000 --> 04:46.000 but the thought of a thousand green pieces of paper did wonders for my bankrupt morale. 04:46.000 --> 04:51.000 We took my car and Shrimp directed me to the warehouse section on Front Street. 04:51.000 --> 04:54.000 We parked beside a deserted looking warehouse, 04:54.000 --> 04:57.000 and Shrimp led me inside through a rear door. 04:58.000 --> 05:00.000 He should be here by now. 05:00.000 --> 05:01.000 Hey, Hank. 05:01.000 --> 05:02.000 Over here, Shrimp. 05:02.000 --> 05:04.000 Behind those boxes over there, Diamond. 05:04.000 --> 05:05.000 I heard him. 05:07.000 --> 05:08.000 Hello, Diamond. 05:08.000 --> 05:12.000 Hank, Shrimp tells me you have a deal to make. 05:12.000 --> 05:14.000 Yeah, that's right. 05:14.000 --> 05:16.000 Shrimp, go outside, see if we ain't interrupted. 05:16.000 --> 05:17.000 Right. 05:19.000 --> 05:22.000 Sit in one of them boxes, Diamond, I got a lot to say. 05:22.000 --> 05:23.000 I'll stand. 05:23.000 --> 05:24.000 It's up to you. 05:24.000 --> 05:25.000 You look bad, Hank. 05:25.000 --> 05:27.000 Never mind that. 05:29.000 --> 05:31.000 Did Shrimp explain the set-up? 05:31.000 --> 05:34.000 I'll accept the job. You expect in return, banning you over. 05:34.000 --> 05:35.000 Okay. 05:36.000 --> 05:38.000 I want you to find a girl, Diamond, that's all. 05:38.000 --> 05:40.000 That could be enough. 05:40.000 --> 05:41.000 Who's the girl? 05:42.000 --> 05:44.000 Her name is Lee Thorpe. 05:44.000 --> 05:47.000 You find out where she's located now, and I'll let you turn me in. 05:47.000 --> 05:48.000 Uh-huh. 05:49.000 --> 05:52.000 Why is it so important you know where this Lee Thorpe is, Hank? 05:52.000 --> 05:56.000 Because if I have to take the rap on that jewelry heist, she takes it with me. 05:56.000 --> 05:57.000 Keep talking. 05:57.000 --> 06:00.000 I met her about four months ago. 06:00.000 --> 06:03.000 Felt pretty hard, and she seemed to go for me, too. 06:03.000 --> 06:06.000 We made plans, big plans. 06:08.000 --> 06:10.000 And my ticket went bad. 06:10.000 --> 06:13.000 She suggested we go to Mexico, where I could be taken care of, but that took though. 06:13.000 --> 06:15.000 So you pulled the jewelry store robbery? 06:15.000 --> 06:17.000 Yeah. 06:17.000 --> 06:18.000 It was her idea. 06:18.000 --> 06:21.000 She said she knew a fence where she could change the rocks in the door, 06:21.000 --> 06:23.000 and we'd be out of country within a month. 06:23.000 --> 06:25.000 But the deal fell through, huh? 06:25.000 --> 06:26.000 Yeah. 06:26.000 --> 06:29.000 I was spotted during the job. I had to hide out. 06:29.000 --> 06:31.000 But I sent her the rocks she said to give her a week. 06:31.000 --> 06:33.000 I think I can guess what happened. 06:33.000 --> 06:35.000 Ain't hard. 06:35.000 --> 06:39.000 When I contacted her a week later, I found out she moved, disappeared. 06:40.000 --> 06:42.000 What a sap I was. 06:42.000 --> 06:43.000 What a sap. 06:43.000 --> 06:45.000 You were a sap to steal the stones in the first place, Hank. 06:45.000 --> 06:48.000 Okay, okay, no speeches. 06:48.000 --> 06:52.000 All I want you to do is locate this dame so the bulls can nab her, too. 06:52.000 --> 06:53.000 Uh-huh. 06:53.000 --> 06:55.000 Why not go to the police right away, Hank? 06:55.000 --> 06:57.000 Tell them the story, let them pick her up. 06:57.000 --> 06:58.000 No. 06:58.000 --> 07:00.000 No, she's smart. 07:00.000 --> 07:05.000 As soon as the word gets out of her and picked up, she'll figure I squeal on her. 07:05.000 --> 07:07.000 It'll be harder to find her then. 07:07.000 --> 07:09.000 Won't be so easy now. 07:09.000 --> 07:11.000 Any idea where she might be? 07:11.000 --> 07:13.000 If I knew, I'd find her myself. 07:13.000 --> 07:15.000 You're the gum she'll get to work. 07:15.000 --> 07:17.000 A thousand bucks ain't bad pay, you know. 07:17.000 --> 07:18.000 Not bad at all. 07:18.000 --> 07:20.000 Only how do I know you'll keep the bargain? 07:20.000 --> 07:22.000 Look at me, will you? 07:22.000 --> 07:24.000 I'm a dying man unless I get help. 07:24.000 --> 07:27.000 Don't worry, I'll let you turn me in. 07:28.000 --> 07:30.000 After you find the girl. 07:30.000 --> 07:32.000 All right, Burton, I'll take a chance. 07:32.000 --> 07:34.000 Where do I get in touch with you? 07:34.000 --> 07:38.000 You know, I'll call you at your office around six. 07:39.000 --> 07:41.000 Work fast, huh, Diamond? 07:42.000 --> 07:45.000 Find her as soon as you can. 07:45.000 --> 07:48.000 Yeah, Hank, as soon as I can. 07:50.000 --> 07:52.000 Hank Burton was in a bad way. 07:52.000 --> 07:55.000 And if he wouldn't give himself up until Lee Thorpe was located, 07:55.000 --> 07:58.000 then it was true she'd have to be found quickly. 07:58.000 --> 08:01.000 Hank didn't have much time left. 08:01.000 --> 08:03.000 We left the warehouse together. 08:03.000 --> 08:07.000 He and Shrimp Martin disappeared down Front Street and I drove back uptown. 08:07.000 --> 08:11.000 At the 5th Precinct, I found that Lieutenant Walt Levinson was out to lunch. 08:11.000 --> 08:15.000 But in the meantime, the sergeant let me look through the files. 08:18.000 --> 08:21.000 Well, make yourself right at home, Mr. Diamond. 08:21.000 --> 08:23.000 Well, thank you, Lieutenant, I have. 08:23.000 --> 08:25.000 So wonder you're not sitting behind my desk. 08:25.000 --> 08:27.000 I'm sure you'd be more comfortable. 08:27.000 --> 08:29.000 Well, now, I might just take you up on that when I get tired. 08:29.000 --> 08:33.000 Fine, fine. Maybe you'd even like one of my uniforms to wear. 08:33.000 --> 08:35.000 Now, Walt, let's not carry the joke too far. 08:35.000 --> 08:38.000 When I was on the force, I tried to get into one of your uniforms. 08:38.000 --> 08:41.000 It looked like Bonnie Prince Charlie in a raccoon coat. 08:41.000 --> 08:45.000 Just when I need after a nice lunch, you around to give me indigestion. 08:46.000 --> 08:48.000 What are you looking for, anyway? 08:48.000 --> 08:49.000 I found it. 08:49.000 --> 08:51.000 File on a girl named Lee Thorpe. 08:51.000 --> 08:53.000 Thorpe? Thorpe. 08:53.000 --> 08:56.000 Yeah, yeah, I remember. I used to be married to Davy Thorpe. 08:56.000 --> 08:57.000 Used to be? 08:57.000 --> 08:58.000 Yeah, it's all there in the folder. 08:58.000 --> 09:02.000 She split up with Davy, too, maybe three years ago when he was sent up. 09:02.000 --> 09:03.000 Davy's still in prison? 09:03.000 --> 09:05.000 Uh-uh. Out about a year ago. 09:05.000 --> 09:07.000 What do you want this Lee Gale for? 09:07.000 --> 09:09.000 Sorry, Walt. Confidential. 09:09.000 --> 09:12.000 Oh, great. I ask a question, you tell me it's confidential. 09:12.000 --> 09:15.000 But you think you can walk in here and poke through our files all you please? 09:15.000 --> 09:18.000 Uh, cheer up, fatty. I'll tell you all about it after I find Lee Thorpe. 09:18.000 --> 09:21.000 Well, now, that's mighty big of you, Mr. Diamond. 09:21.000 --> 09:23.000 Well, think nothing of it, Lieutenant. 09:23.000 --> 09:24.000 I don't. 09:24.000 --> 09:26.000 Uh, find anything in the folder? 09:26.000 --> 09:28.000 Eh, not much. 09:28.000 --> 09:31.000 She's been picked up on a few minor offenses, that's all. 09:31.000 --> 09:33.000 What about Davy, her ex-husband? 09:33.000 --> 09:35.000 Oh, he seems pretty legitimate these days. 09:35.000 --> 09:37.000 Run a pool room over on Third. 09:37.000 --> 09:40.000 Listed in the book as Davy's Billiard Parlor. 09:40.000 --> 09:42.000 Hmm. That's an original name. 09:42.000 --> 09:45.000 Well, I guess I'll go see Davy. 09:45.000 --> 09:47.000 Maybe he's seen his ex-wife lately. 09:47.000 --> 09:49.000 Oh, don't rush off, bright eyes. 09:49.000 --> 09:53.000 Things are so dull around here when you're not poking your nose into our business. 09:53.000 --> 09:55.000 I know, but don't feel bad, Walt. I'll pay you back. 09:55.000 --> 09:58.000 Well, goody, goody gumdrop. I'll have our best cell waiting. 09:58.000 --> 10:00.000 You're such a wonderful host. 10:00.000 --> 10:05.000 See you later, Walt. 10:05.000 --> 10:09.000 Davy's pool room turned out to be a dingy joint. 10:09.000 --> 10:12.000 There were no customers this early in the afternoon. 10:12.000 --> 10:15.000 But Davy must not have liked his tables to go to waste. 10:15.000 --> 10:18.000 He was playing at a front table all by himself. 10:18.000 --> 10:21.000 I walked over to him. 10:21.000 --> 10:23.000 Well, nice shot, Davy. 10:23.000 --> 10:26.000 Huh? Oh, want a game, Mac? 10:26.000 --> 10:28.000 I'd rather talk. 10:28.000 --> 10:31.000 This is a pool room, not a conversation club. 10:31.000 --> 10:33.000 It's about your wife, Davy. 10:33.000 --> 10:34.000 I got no wife. 10:34.000 --> 10:35.000 You did have. 10:35.000 --> 10:39.000 I had measles once, too, but that don't mean I'm still scratching. 10:39.000 --> 10:41.000 Have you seen Lee recently? 10:41.000 --> 10:45.000 Well, depends on how recent you call recently. 10:45.000 --> 10:46.000 Oh, in the last month or so? 10:46.000 --> 10:48.000 Mm-mm. 10:48.000 --> 10:51.000 You see, when I first got out, close to a year ago, 10:51.000 --> 10:53.000 she wants to pick up where we left off. 10:53.000 --> 10:54.000 And? 10:54.000 --> 10:56.000 I don't know where to get off. 10:56.000 --> 11:00.000 You beat these dames, I get sent up out of circulation for a while. 11:00.000 --> 11:01.000 She wants to be free. 11:01.000 --> 11:04.000 Then I'm out, she wants to get all shimmy again. 11:04.000 --> 11:06.000 Well, maybe you know where she might hang around, Davy. 11:06.000 --> 11:09.000 Yeah, maybe. 11:09.000 --> 11:10.000 You a cop? 11:10.000 --> 11:12.000 Private. 11:12.000 --> 11:13.000 Well? 11:13.000 --> 11:14.000 Well, what? 11:14.000 --> 11:16.000 I'm a businessman, pal. 11:16.000 --> 11:18.000 I don't shoot off my mouth, but I'm fun of it. 11:18.000 --> 11:22.000 Well, 10 bucks, take the fun out of it. 11:22.000 --> 11:23.000 You don't see me laughing, do you? 11:23.000 --> 11:25.000 Put the money on the table. 11:25.000 --> 11:27.000 Okay, there you are. 11:27.000 --> 11:30.000 Oh, what's your bludge? 11:30.000 --> 11:33.000 Yeah, I might know where Lee hangs out. 11:33.000 --> 11:35.000 I'm not saying it for sure, mind you. 11:35.000 --> 11:37.000 Been almost a year since I seen her. 11:37.000 --> 11:38.000 Keep talking. 11:38.000 --> 11:41.000 She always likes bars, lights, people. 11:41.000 --> 11:44.000 She used to drag me to a bar all the time. 11:44.000 --> 11:45.000 Any particular bar? 11:45.000 --> 11:46.000 Mm-hmm. 11:46.000 --> 11:49.000 The Blue Boy Club over on 40th. 11:49.000 --> 11:51.000 In fact, that's where I first met her. 11:51.000 --> 11:53.000 I, uh... Oh, excuse me a sec. 11:53.000 --> 11:56.000 Hey, take a few shots while I answer that. 11:58.000 --> 11:59.000 Hello? 11:59.000 --> 12:02.000 Davies Billiard, pal, huh? 12:02.000 --> 12:05.000 I don't... Oh, yeah, yeah, maybe, yes, hold it. 12:05.000 --> 12:07.000 Hey, uh, Sharmus. 12:07.000 --> 12:09.000 Your name Richard Diamond? 12:09.000 --> 12:10.000 That's right. 12:10.000 --> 12:11.000 That's for you. 12:11.000 --> 12:13.000 If you want more out of me, I'll be over in the office. 12:13.000 --> 12:15.000 Thanks. 12:15.000 --> 12:16.000 Hello? 12:16.000 --> 12:18.000 Old Rick, I took a chance. Figured you'd still be there. 12:18.000 --> 12:19.000 What's up? 12:19.000 --> 12:21.000 Funny, but right after you were here, 12:21.000 --> 12:23.000 we got a call about Lee Thorpe. 12:23.000 --> 12:24.000 Picked her up right away. 12:24.000 --> 12:25.000 Good boy. I'll be right down. 12:25.000 --> 12:26.000 You at the precinct? 12:26.000 --> 12:28.000 Uh-uh. I'm at the morgue. 12:28.000 --> 12:29.000 Why? 12:29.000 --> 12:31.000 And don't bother to hurry, Rick. 12:31.000 --> 12:33.000 This gal won't be going anywhere. 12:33.000 --> 12:34.000 Not now. 12:47.000 --> 12:50.000 Before we continue with Richard Diamond, 12:50.000 --> 12:53.000 here are a few words about smoking enjoyment. 12:53.000 --> 12:55.000 According to nationwide surveys 12:55.000 --> 12:58.000 made by independent fact-finding organizations, 12:58.000 --> 13:03.000 more doctors smoke Camels than any other cigarette. 13:03.000 --> 13:06.000 That fact was brought to light a few years ago 13:06.000 --> 13:11.000 when 113,597 doctors were asked this question. 13:11.000 --> 13:14.000 What cigarette do you smoke, doctor? 13:14.000 --> 13:17.000 The brand named most was Camel. 13:17.000 --> 13:21.000 In repeated surveys, doctors in all branches of medicine 13:21.000 --> 13:23.000 have been asked the same question. 13:23.000 --> 13:27.000 And each time, Camel leads all the rest. 13:27.000 --> 13:31.000 Yes, these surveys show that more doctors smoke Camels 13:31.000 --> 13:33.000 than any other cigarette. 13:33.000 --> 13:36.000 Why don't you start smoking the cigarette 13:36.000 --> 13:38.000 so many doctors enjoy? 13:38.000 --> 13:42.000 Start smoking mild, flavorful Camels tonight. 13:42.000 --> 13:47.000 How mild, how mild, how mild can a cigarette be? 13:47.000 --> 13:52.000 Smake the Camel 30-day test and you see, 13:52.000 --> 13:54.000 smoke Camels and see. 13:57.000 --> 14:00.000 And now back to Richard Diamond, private detective, 14:00.000 --> 14:02.000 starring Dick Powell. 14:09.000 --> 14:11.000 At the city morgue, I looked down on the girl 14:11.000 --> 14:13.000 who was once called Lee Thorpe 14:13.000 --> 14:15.000 and had now become a number. 14:15.000 --> 14:19.000 It wasn't a pretty sight and I wasn't glad to be seeing it. 14:19.000 --> 14:22.000 Okay, Charlie, thanks. Come on, Rick. 14:24.000 --> 14:25.000 Where did you find her, Walt? 14:25.000 --> 14:28.000 One of the beat men came across her in an alley 14:28.000 --> 14:29.000 over by 6th Street. 14:29.000 --> 14:30.000 Find the murder weapon? 14:30.000 --> 14:34.000 No, the knife wasn't around. Only the holes it made. 14:34.000 --> 14:37.000 Yeah, we can sit down in here. 14:37.000 --> 14:39.000 You have some talking to do, Rick. 14:39.000 --> 14:42.000 No more of this confidential rigmarole. 14:42.000 --> 14:44.000 Okay, Walt, you ask the questions 14:44.000 --> 14:46.000 and I'll answer as best I can. 14:46.000 --> 14:48.000 Number one, why were you looking for the date? 14:48.000 --> 14:50.000 A client hired me to find it. 14:50.000 --> 14:51.000 Who's the client? 14:51.000 --> 14:53.000 You know, Walt, this is going to sound scurry. 14:53.000 --> 14:55.000 Cut the build-up, just make with the answer. 14:55.000 --> 14:58.000 Okay, okay. The client is Hank Burton. 14:58.000 --> 15:02.000 Well, at least we... What? Hank Burton? 15:02.000 --> 15:04.000 That's right. Now sit down, fatty, 15:04.000 --> 15:06.000 and wipe that shocked expression off your face. 15:06.000 --> 15:08.000 Rick Boy, do you happen to know who Hank Burton is? 15:08.000 --> 15:10.000 That we've been after him for two months? 15:10.000 --> 15:11.000 I know, I know. 15:11.000 --> 15:13.000 If things had gone as I planned, 15:13.000 --> 15:15.000 you'd have had him in the cell by tomorrow. 15:15.000 --> 15:18.000 I guess I'd better explain, Walt. 15:18.000 --> 15:20.000 Yeah, I think you'd better. 15:20.000 --> 15:22.000 And make it good, Rick. Plenty good. 15:24.000 --> 15:26.000 I told Walt about Burton, 15:26.000 --> 15:29.000 about the thousand-dollar fee and Burton's illness. 15:29.000 --> 15:31.000 He wasn't happy about the whole thing, 15:31.000 --> 15:34.000 but at least he now knew as much about the case as I did, 15:34.000 --> 15:37.000 which wasn't much for either of us to know. 15:37.000 --> 15:39.000 So Burton figured the girl gave him the double-cross, huh? 15:39.000 --> 15:41.000 Yeah, I guess that's it. 15:41.000 --> 15:43.000 He wanted me to find her, 15:43.000 --> 15:45.000 just so he could turn her in when he gives himself out. 15:45.000 --> 15:47.000 Maybe and maybe not. 15:47.000 --> 15:49.000 Maybe he found her before you did. 15:49.000 --> 15:51.000 Maybe he's the one who put those knife wounds in her back. 15:51.000 --> 15:52.000 I doubt it, Walt. 15:52.000 --> 15:54.000 If he'd had any idea where she was, 15:54.000 --> 15:55.000 he wouldn't have bothered to hire me. 15:55.000 --> 15:56.000 Then why was she killed? 15:56.000 --> 16:00.000 Well, she must have known where $50,000 worth of jewelry was. 16:00.000 --> 16:01.000 Good enough reason? 16:01.000 --> 16:03.000 Yeah. 16:03.000 --> 16:04.000 Well, what now? 16:04.000 --> 16:07.000 You think Burton will still turn himself in after he hears the girl's dead? 16:07.000 --> 16:09.000 I think so. 16:09.000 --> 16:10.000 He's pretty sick. 16:10.000 --> 16:12.000 Hasn't got a chance on his own. 16:12.000 --> 16:13.000 Uh-huh. 16:13.000 --> 16:15.000 Well, I'm going back over to the neighborhood 16:15.000 --> 16:16.000 where we found the girl's body. 16:16.000 --> 16:17.000 We figure she lived around there. 16:17.000 --> 16:19.000 Maybe we can find out where. 16:19.000 --> 16:20.000 It's a start, anyway. 16:20.000 --> 16:21.000 Good. 16:21.000 --> 16:23.000 I'll wait for Hank Burton to contact me. 16:23.000 --> 16:25.000 Okay. And Rick, if you turn up anything, 16:25.000 --> 16:27.000 let me in on it this time, huh? 16:27.000 --> 16:29.000 I waited until 6 o'clock in my office, 16:29.000 --> 16:31.000 and then Burton called. 16:31.000 --> 16:34.000 I didn't tell him about the girl over the phone. 16:34.000 --> 16:37.000 Instead, I made a date to meet him an hour later 16:37.000 --> 16:39.000 on the Christopher Street ferry. 16:39.000 --> 16:42.000 The ferry was in when I arrived at the slip, 16:42.000 --> 16:44.000 so I went aboard. 16:44.000 --> 16:47.000 I agreed to meet Burton on the lower level port side. 16:47.000 --> 16:49.000 I went there, 16:49.000 --> 16:52.000 sat down on one of the benches, 16:52.000 --> 16:54.000 and waited for him to come back. 16:54.000 --> 16:57.000 Sat down on one of the benches. 16:57.000 --> 16:59.000 But five minutes later, the ferry pulled out, 16:59.000 --> 17:02.000 and there was still no sign of Hank Burton. 17:04.000 --> 17:05.000 Diamond? 17:05.000 --> 17:06.000 Huh? 17:06.000 --> 17:08.000 It's me, Shrimp. 17:08.000 --> 17:10.000 Oh, that's quite a professional way 17:10.000 --> 17:13.000 you have of sneaking up on people, friend. 17:13.000 --> 17:14.000 Yeah. 17:14.000 --> 17:17.000 Enjoy the ride, Diamond. 17:17.000 --> 17:20.000 We go over to Jersey, and then we come back. 17:20.000 --> 17:22.000 And then we get off. 17:22.000 --> 17:23.000 Where's Burton? 17:23.000 --> 17:24.000 He couldn't make it. 17:24.000 --> 17:26.000 I want you to meet him back at the warehouse 17:26.000 --> 17:27.000 we met in this morning. 17:27.000 --> 17:28.000 Oh, great. 17:28.000 --> 17:30.000 Why didn't you get here before we pulled out? 17:30.000 --> 17:32.000 I tried. 17:32.000 --> 17:34.000 Not as fast as I used to be. 17:34.000 --> 17:36.000 Uh-huh. 17:36.000 --> 17:39.000 Now, uh, tell me, Shrimp, 17:39.000 --> 17:42.000 just why couldn't Hank make it here? 17:42.000 --> 17:44.000 It's as safe as that warehouse. 17:44.000 --> 17:47.000 Oh, well, uh, he's sick. 17:47.000 --> 17:49.000 He's feeling bad. 17:49.000 --> 17:50.000 He felt bad all day. 17:50.000 --> 17:51.000 Oh? 17:51.000 --> 17:53.000 It didn't sound so bad when I talked to him on the phone. 17:53.000 --> 17:55.000 Well, he was sick. He was. 17:55.000 --> 17:56.000 Real pain. 17:56.000 --> 17:59.000 He could never make it down here. 17:59.000 --> 18:01.000 Let's enjoy the ride, huh? 18:01.000 --> 18:03.000 Let's talk some more first. 18:03.000 --> 18:06.000 If Burton knew he was too sick to meet me here, 18:06.000 --> 18:08.000 why did he suggest it in the first place? 18:08.000 --> 18:10.000 How should I know? 18:10.000 --> 18:12.000 Hank says we come to the warehouse, 18:12.000 --> 18:14.000 we go to the warehouse. 18:14.000 --> 18:16.000 Don't ask him any questions. 18:16.000 --> 18:18.000 Oh, I just have an inquisitive nature. 18:18.000 --> 18:20.000 I like answers, Shrimp. 18:20.000 --> 18:22.000 Okay. 18:22.000 --> 18:24.000 How's this for an answer? 18:24.000 --> 18:26.000 Wow. 18:26.000 --> 18:28.000 Little man with a big gun. 18:28.000 --> 18:30.000 That's right. 18:30.000 --> 18:33.000 And the gun says we go to the warehouse. 18:33.000 --> 18:36.000 Now settle back and enjoy the ride. 18:41.000 --> 18:45.000 It was the most uncomfortable boat ride I'd taken in years. 18:45.000 --> 18:47.000 Shrimp put the gun back in his pocket, 18:47.000 --> 18:49.000 but kept it pointed toward me. 18:49.000 --> 18:52.000 The ferry finally returned to the New York side, 18:52.000 --> 18:54.000 and we got off. 18:54.000 --> 18:56.000 Then we drove back to Front Street 18:56.000 --> 18:58.000 and parked beside the warehouse. 18:59.000 --> 19:01.000 Okay, Diamond, in the back door. 19:01.000 --> 19:04.000 Stop waving the gun back and forth, Shrimp. 19:04.000 --> 19:06.000 You'll wear yourself out. 19:06.000 --> 19:08.000 No cracks. Go on, open the door. 19:12.000 --> 19:13.000 Where's Burton? 19:13.000 --> 19:16.000 Same place, over behind those boxes. 19:16.000 --> 19:18.000 Move. 19:18.000 --> 19:20.000 I still don't get it, Shrimp. 19:20.000 --> 19:22.000 Why wouldn't Hank come to the ferry, 19:22.000 --> 19:24.000 and why the artillery to make sure I came here? 19:24.000 --> 19:26.000 That's far enough. 19:26.000 --> 19:28.000 I'll light this candle, Diamond. 19:28.000 --> 19:30.000 Maybe you'll get your answer then. 19:30.000 --> 19:33.000 Well, that's better. At least I... 19:33.000 --> 19:35.000 Uh-oh. 19:35.000 --> 19:38.000 See what I mean, Shammers? 19:38.000 --> 19:41.000 Yeah, Shrimp. I see what you mean. 19:44.000 --> 19:47.000 Hank Burton wasn't bothered by his heart anymore. 19:47.000 --> 19:49.000 He lay there on the floor 19:49.000 --> 19:51.000 with a stupid expression on his face 19:51.000 --> 19:53.000 that the sudden dead often wear. 19:53.000 --> 19:56.000 His eyes were open and a bewildered stare, 19:56.000 --> 19:59.000 and his teeth were clenched tight. 19:59.000 --> 20:03.000 Hank Burton had died quickly, without warning. 20:03.000 --> 20:06.000 And it looked like I was next in line. 20:06.000 --> 20:08.000 Surprised, Diamond? 20:08.000 --> 20:11.000 You didn't bring me here for a reaction, Shrimp. 20:11.000 --> 20:14.000 Nuh-uh. I just get a kick out of seeing your face. 20:14.000 --> 20:17.000 Yeah. Good old Shrimp, the loyal friend. 20:17.000 --> 20:19.000 Hank trusted you. 20:19.000 --> 20:21.000 Ah, that was a big mistake. 20:21.000 --> 20:23.000 Hank was a sap. 20:23.000 --> 20:25.000 I stuck with him, 20:25.000 --> 20:27.000 because I thought he'd get his hands on them rocks again. 20:27.000 --> 20:29.000 Then I'd get a split. 20:29.000 --> 20:31.000 Only Hank didn't want the stuff back, huh? 20:31.000 --> 20:33.000 He was going to let me turn him in, 20:33.000 --> 20:35.000 and that left you out in the cold. 20:35.000 --> 20:37.000 You got it right. 20:37.000 --> 20:39.000 When I knew he was sickening you onto the diamond, 20:39.000 --> 20:42.000 I went to the guy who really has the stones. 20:42.000 --> 20:45.000 Yeah, I figured there was someone else in this. 20:45.000 --> 20:48.000 You're not brave enough to try something like murder alone. 20:48.000 --> 20:51.000 He does very well at it, Diamond, believe me. 20:51.000 --> 20:55.000 Well, pool hall Thorpe, little Davey. 20:55.000 --> 20:58.000 You're a long way from your pool room, pal. 20:58.000 --> 21:01.000 There's more profitable things than pool rooms, Diamond. 21:01.000 --> 21:03.000 I saw it would seem. 21:03.000 --> 21:05.000 Like handling stolen jewelry. 21:05.000 --> 21:07.000 Uh-huh. 21:07.000 --> 21:09.000 You sure know him, Follage, you Shrimp. 21:09.000 --> 21:10.000 Positive. 21:09.000 --> 21:11.000 Good. 21:11.000 --> 21:14.000 I'm sorry about this, Diamond, 21:14.000 --> 21:17.000 but you'll have to join Hank before long. 21:17.000 --> 21:19.000 Yeah, I'll bet you're sorry. 21:19.000 --> 21:21.000 You were sorry when you killed your ex-wife, too. 21:21.000 --> 21:23.000 A real sweet guy. 21:23.000 --> 21:25.000 She brings you the stones, and you pay her back with a knife. 21:25.000 --> 21:27.000 What could I do? 21:27.000 --> 21:30.000 Shrimp tells me there's a detective looking for her. 21:30.000 --> 21:33.000 He was a good kid, but she didn't have much knife. 21:33.000 --> 21:36.000 She'd have talked her head off if you'd found her. 21:36.000 --> 21:37.000 I see. 21:37.000 --> 21:39.000 But why Hank and now me? 21:39.000 --> 21:41.000 Well, look at it this way. 21:41.000 --> 21:44.000 We finish you with the same knife that killed Lee. 21:44.000 --> 21:46.000 Then we put the knife in Hank's hand 21:46.000 --> 21:48.000 and the gun that killed him in yours. 21:48.000 --> 21:50.000 Oh, that's really great. 21:50.000 --> 21:53.000 Davey, I'm afraid you've been reading pulp fiction. 21:53.000 --> 21:54.000 Heh. 21:54.000 --> 21:57.000 So the cops get wise sooner or later. 21:57.000 --> 22:00.000 It'll still give us time to get far away. 22:02.000 --> 22:03.000 Shrimp, you got the knife? 22:03.000 --> 22:05.000 Right here, Davey. 22:05.000 --> 22:06.000 Okay. 22:06.000 --> 22:09.000 Restore long enough, Shrimp. 22:09.000 --> 22:11.000 By candlelight yet, huh, fellas? 22:11.000 --> 22:13.000 Well, well, this is real romantic. 22:13.000 --> 22:15.000 Yeah, ain't it, Saul? 22:15.000 --> 22:17.000 Well, only not quite enough. 22:17.000 --> 22:19.000 It's even more romantic with a candle. 22:19.000 --> 22:20.000 Ow! 22:20.000 --> 22:21.000 Shrimp! 22:21.000 --> 22:22.000 My hand! 22:27.000 --> 22:28.000 Shrimp! 22:28.000 --> 22:29.000 Shrimp! 22:29.000 --> 22:32.000 He's taking a little nap, Davey, and I've got his gun. 22:32.000 --> 22:36.000 Quiet! 22:41.000 --> 22:43.000 Ah, it's too bad, Davey. 22:43.000 --> 22:46.000 You should have stuck to your pool room. 22:50.000 --> 22:52.000 Okay, Shrimp, get to your feet. 22:52.000 --> 22:53.000 Diamond, diamond. 22:53.000 --> 22:54.000 Oh, shut up. Come on. 22:54.000 --> 22:56.000 Oh, my head. 22:56.000 --> 22:59.000 Shrimp, I made you a promise this morning. 22:59.000 --> 23:01.000 I said either this deal with Hank was on the level 23:01.000 --> 23:03.000 or your buck teeth were going down your throat. 23:03.000 --> 23:05.000 Oh, no, look, diamond. 23:05.000 --> 23:06.000 Oh, shut up. 23:06.000 --> 23:08.000 Now, you know the old saying, Shrimp. 23:08.000 --> 23:10.000 See your deadest twice a year? 23:10.000 --> 23:11.000 Huh? 23:11.000 --> 23:29.000 Well, you won't have to worry about that now, friend. 23:29.000 --> 23:30.000 Rick? 23:30.000 --> 23:31.000 Yes, Helen dear? 23:31.000 --> 23:33.000 It's nice outside. 23:33.000 --> 23:35.000 If you're wearing a fur coat, it is. 23:35.000 --> 23:37.000 Oh, it's not really cold. 23:37.000 --> 23:39.000 Besides, you have a nice little house. 23:39.000 --> 23:41.000 It's not really cold. 23:41.000 --> 23:43.000 Besides, you have a heavy coat. 23:43.000 --> 23:46.000 Helen, are you hinting that I should leave? 23:46.000 --> 23:48.000 Uh-huh, with me. 23:48.000 --> 23:50.000 I'd still like to go for that walk. 23:50.000 --> 23:51.000 Oh, no. 23:51.000 --> 23:53.000 Well, why not? 23:53.000 --> 23:56.000 The only time I see you is after a case 23:56.000 --> 23:58.000 and you just drop in, seat yourself at the piano 23:58.000 --> 23:59.000 and take it easy. 23:59.000 --> 24:00.000 But, honey, I'm tired. 24:00.000 --> 24:02.000 Well, I'm not. 24:02.000 --> 24:05.000 I've been in all day and I could use the exercise. 24:05.000 --> 24:06.000 Exercise you want, huh? 24:06.000 --> 24:08.000 Well, I got a good idea. 24:08.000 --> 24:10.000 I'll chase you around the piano. 24:10.000 --> 24:12.000 It's your idea of exercise, huh? 24:12.000 --> 24:15.000 No, but just think of the fun we could have after I caught you. 24:15.000 --> 24:17.000 Rick, I'm serious. 24:17.000 --> 24:20.000 Just look out that window. 24:20.000 --> 24:22.000 Oh, stop shivering. 24:22.000 --> 24:24.000 Look at that moonlight. 24:24.000 --> 24:26.000 Isn't it romantic? 24:26.000 --> 24:28.000 What chances to give the Dodgers this year? 24:28.000 --> 24:30.000 Long walk. 24:30.000 --> 24:31.000 Just you and me. 24:31.000 --> 24:32.000 And the Giants. 24:32.000 --> 24:33.000 Now, there's a hot ball team. 24:33.000 --> 24:35.000 Maybe over to Central Park? 24:35.000 --> 24:36.000 And the Arkansas Aggies. 24:36.000 --> 24:38.000 Oh, they'll be fighting all the way. 24:38.000 --> 24:41.000 Hand in hand, we get Arkansas Aggies. 24:41.000 --> 24:44.000 Yeah, my old home team. 24:44.000 --> 24:48.000 Richard Diamond, you are the most unromantic man in town. 24:48.000 --> 24:49.000 Telling how can you say that? 24:49.000 --> 24:51.000 Don't I build a nice fire in the fireplace? 24:51.000 --> 24:53.000 I could get a Boy Scout to do that. 24:53.000 --> 24:56.000 Here we are, a fire, lights down low, 24:56.000 --> 24:59.000 a nice romantic song, and your idea of romance is a walk. 24:59.000 --> 25:01.000 Well, after all, I... 25:01.000 --> 25:04.000 Hey, where does that nice romantic song come in? 25:04.000 --> 25:05.000 Right about now. 25:05.000 --> 25:07.000 Well, couldn't you sing while we walk? 25:07.000 --> 25:10.000 Oh, sorry, honey. 25:10.000 --> 25:17.000 Throw another log on the fire 25:17.000 --> 25:24.000 Keep my golden memories aglow 25:24.000 --> 25:30.000 I don't see the face of my loved one 25:30.000 --> 25:36.000 When the logs are burning low 25:36.000 --> 25:42.000 Throw another log on the fire 25:42.000 --> 25:48.000 Bring back all the sweetest days I've known 25:48.000 --> 25:54.000 When our hearts were young in the springtime 25:54.000 --> 26:00.000 And her love was mine alone 26:00.000 --> 26:05.000 Now there's nothing left but the embers 26:05.000 --> 26:11.000 Springtime seemed so long ago 26:11.000 --> 26:18.000 Throw another log on the fire 26:18.000 --> 26:28.000 Keep my golden memories aglow 26:28.000 --> 26:33.000 Ah, that was very nice, but I still didn't like it. 26:33.000 --> 26:34.000 That's a brilliant statement. 26:34.000 --> 26:36.000 I still want to go for a walk. 26:36.000 --> 26:49.000 Millions of girls in New York, and I had to pick a nature lover. 26:49.000 --> 26:51.000 Dick Powell will return in just a moment. 26:51.000 --> 26:58.000 Camel leads all other brands in popularity by billions of cigarettes per year. 26:58.000 --> 27:02.000 Yes, more people smoke camels than any other cigarette. 27:02.000 --> 27:06.000 And among them are many people whose throats are important to their careers. 27:06.000 --> 27:09.000 For instance, our own Dick Powell. 27:09.000 --> 27:12.000 Dick, why do you smoke camels? 27:12.000 --> 27:15.000 Well, I smoke camels regularly because I like their taste. 27:15.000 --> 27:17.000 They're mild and they agree with my throat. 27:17.000 --> 27:21.000 That's mighty important when you use your voice as much as I do. 27:21.000 --> 27:25.000 Friends, why don't you find out how well camels will agree with your throat? 27:25.000 --> 27:31.000 How mild, how mild, how mild, how mild can a cigarette be? 27:31.000 --> 27:36.000 Make the camels 30-day test and you'll see. 27:36.000 --> 27:38.000 Smoke camels and see. 27:38.000 --> 27:41.000 Here's Dick Powell with a special message. 27:41.000 --> 27:42.000 Thank you. 27:42.000 --> 27:47.000 Ladies and gentlemen, the makers of camels have now sent more than 200 million 27:47.000 --> 27:50.000 camels cigarettes to service men and veterans. 27:50.000 --> 27:55.000 This week, as every week, gift camels are being sent to hospitalized veterans. 27:55.000 --> 28:02.000 They're on their way to Veterans Hospitals, Phoenix, Arizona, and Des Moines, Iowa, 28:02.000 --> 28:09.000 U.S. Army Station Hospital, Fort Benning, Georgia, U.S. Naval Hospitalship Haven. 28:09.000 --> 28:13.000 Now until next week, enjoy camels. 28:13.000 --> 28:15.000 I always do. 28:15.000 --> 28:36.000 Music 28:36.000 --> 28:42.000 Tonight's adventure of Richard Diamond was written by Dick Carr with music by Frank Wirth. 28:42.000 --> 28:47.000 Virginia Gregg was heard as Helen Asher and Alan Reed as Lieutenant Walt Levinson. 28:47.000 --> 28:52.000 Others in the cast were Junius Matthews, Tony Barrett, and Ted D'Courcier. 28:52.000 --> 28:57.000 Richard Diamond, Private Detective, is transcribed in Hollywood by Jaime del Valle. 28:57.000 --> 29:06.000 Music 29:06.000 --> 29:10.000 Be sure to listen to another great camel show. 29:10.000 --> 29:16.000 Vaughn Monroe and the Camel Caravan every Saturday night. 29:16.000 --> 29:21.000 Listen next week for another exciting adventure of Richard Diamond starring Dick Powell. 29:21.000 --> 29:41.000 Now stay tuned for This Is Your FBI, followed immediately by Ozzie and Harriet over most of these stations.